About the show

After more than a decade exploring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Mal Pelo presents Highlands, the last piece of the tetralogy inspired by the music of the German composer. Highlands is an eclosion of the work that has been gestating and maturing throughout their previous shows (Bach, On Goldberg Variations / Variations and Inventions), where they have analyzed and delved deeply into the hearing and visualizing of the structures, harmonies, voices and development of the music of J.S. Bach. A study that, over the years, has resulted in questions, curiosity and many hours of searching with regard to the dialogue between dance and the Baroque contrapuntal music. With sixteen performers on stage -eight dancers, a string quartet and four singers-, the piece merges dance, live music, word and video projections in a piece about the search for spirituality and the mundane topics, about the unanswered questions, or about the temporal paradox of the human the deep time of history.

About the Company

The contemporary dance group Mal Pelo, led by Pep Ramis and María Muñoz, is considered one of the most prestigious and with the greatest international projection in our country. Since 1989, and with more than 30 shows until now, Mal Pelo has developed its own artistic language through movement and the creation of a recognizable dramaturgy that include text, original soundtracks, live music, the construction of stage spaces, illumination and video. Throughout their career, María Muñoz and Pep Ramis have found, in the stage and in the creation of shows, the perfect place in which to experiment, pose questions, and share the topics that are of vital importance to them in their career. Shared creation is one of the distinguishing and characteristic elements of this group, as they collaborate with different artists and projects such as John Berger, Erri de Luca, Lisa Nelson, Àngels Margarit, Steve Noble, Nuria Font, Steve Paxton, Eduard Fernández, Andrés Corchero, Toni Serra, Lilo Baur, Cesc Gelabert, Faustin Linyekula, Raffaella Giordano, Baro D’Evel, Leonor Leal and Marta Izquierdo, among many others. Throughout its career, the company has received several awards including the Premi Nacional de Cultura de Catalunya, Premi Ciutat de Barcelona and the National Award for Culture.